Calico

Definitions

1. A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
   countable, uncountable
2. Ellipsis of calico cat.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis
3. The plant disease caused by Tobacco mosaic virus.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“This helix was covered with calico, and then a second wire applied in the same manner.”

“Trussed in corsets, jawbone-high collars and calicos that had seen better days, they have⟳ little enough to work⟳ with, their attempts at coquetry further constrained by their rigid mores of the day.”

“One of them, a calico whose half-grown kittens he just fed, slow-blinks at him, an affectionate gesture.”

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